NICOLAS BEATRIZET (CIRCA 1507/15-1573) AFTER MARCO DENTE (CIRCA 1486-1527) AFTER BACCIO BANDINELLI (1488-1560)

The Massacre of the Innocents

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NICOLAS BEATRIZET (CIRCA 1507/15-1573) AFTER MARCO DENTE (CIRCA 1486-1527) AFTER BACCIO BANDINELLI (1488-1560)
The Massacre of the Innocents
engraving, circa 1540-1565, on laid paper, watermark Fleur-de-Lys in Circle, a very good impression of the first state (of two), published by Antonio Lafreri, Rome, with his address, trimmed on or just inside the platemark, retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline, some minor defects at the sheet edges, a repaired curved tear and small hole at the lower left sheet corner, the tips of the upper and lower right sheet corners made up, a small made-up paper loss at lower centre
Plate & Sheet 404 x 570 mm.

Provenance

With P. & D. Colnaghi, London.
Acquired from the above, on 3 August 1977.

Literature

Bartsch 21

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Lot Essay

This is a near-contemporary second version of Marco Dente's first engraving of this highly ambitious composition after a design by Baccio Bandinelli. There must have been much demand for this large and impressive subject, presumably prompting the publisher Antonio Lafreri to commision Beatrizet to create a near-identical copy.

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